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Identical Acrobat Twins Make You See Double at ‘Paramour’

On Broadway these days is a pair of brothers who, quite literally, put their lives in each other’s hands every day.

Andrew and Kevin Atherton are identical twins who soar and spin dozens of feet in the air in a new Cirque du Soleil aerial act that combines muscle and poise, balance and grace.

“We almost become one,” said Kevin Atherton. “I don’t even have to look at him. I can feel what he’s doing.” He quickly adds: “That’s always been the case.”

Their 5½-minute act that closes Act 1 is a highlight of “Paramour ,” the first Cirque production created specifically for Broadway. The 38-member company also includes contortionists, trampoline and trapeze artists, among many others.

The British-born Athertons rely on long straps, their training and each other as motors push them 8 feet a second over the audience. As they embrace and then let go, the effect is like a mirror. They say they enter a “dream state.”

Each said they could do the act with someone else, but sharing the same DNA on top of their 16 years of working together means the act isn’t the same without doing it together. Plus, they’ve never dropped each other.

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